Just a quick note today — amid many busy projects on my desk — to point you all toward a wonderful conversation elsewhere on ArtsJournal. The forum of dance critics, choreographers, programmers, journalists, and others, explores the current hotspots for dance around the world, and asks if New York is still one of them. Says the weblog intro:
Is it true, as Gia Kourlas declared in the New York Times in September, that “New York is no longer the capital of the contemporary dance world”? New York has, for so long, been at the center of dance, the idea is taken on faith in the US. Has the city lost its edge? And if not New York, where are the new capitals of dance? In Amsterdam or Bucharest? Berlin? Brussels, Paris or Vienna? Or has some of the energy that used to propel the New York scene spread elsewhere in America?
A favorite quote, to date, comes from choreographer Tere O’Connor in this post:
One enters deeply into a willful state of marginalization the moment one commits to a mute, non-narrative form, one that leaves no product and is not (in the best hands) a translation of anything.
Shuffle on over and give it a read, all this week.
